10 Amazing Supporting Characters You Wish Movies Were Centred On

The thing with starting the Hunger Games franchise on the 74th annual Hunger Games event is that there are 73 years' worth of stories going completely untold. While A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has gone back in time and told the story of the tenth, there is still so much potential within that universe.

In spite of being an abrasive alcoholic who likely wouldn't be very pleasant to know in real life, Woody Harrelson's Haymitch Abernathy is one of the best and most popular characters in the entire Hunger Games franchise, and is the only character outside of Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) to win the Games from District 12.

As long as prequels to the original film are being made, telling the story of Haymitch's victory in the 50th Games, the second Quarter Quell, and potentially delving into the subsequent years of mentoring and seeing his students killed every year would make for an outstanding story.

From the details given in the novels, the gimmick of this Quarter Quell was double the amount of tributes, with Haymitch and 47 other children having to go up against poison, genetically engineered squirrels and butterflies, and other ungodly things. Much like Katniss and Peeta, Haymitch won via a loophole of sorts, essentially outsmarting the game, and in spite of his victory, his entire family were killed for it. 

Is there a better story to tell in all of Panem than this?